The viewing for longtime Hudson County Superintendent of Elections Marie Borace of North Bergen is today.

Locals will remember Borace, 70, who lost her battle with cancer on May 23, today at the viewing at Vainieri Funeral Home at 5923 Kennedy Blvd. in North Bergen from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. at the funeral home followed by a funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. at Our Lady of Grace Church at 395 Delano Pl. in Fairview. and a funeral procession at Garden of Memories Cemetary, 300 Soldier Hill Rd., in Washington Township.

Stephen Borace said his wife was diagnosed with cancer in December 2011 and had a lung removed. She was in remission until December 2012 and had been fighting the disease since then. He and their two children where at her bedside when she died in a Wayne hospice on May 23.

Marie Borace was born in Christ Hospital in Jersey City and the couple married in 1965 in North Bergen.

“She was the most personable person you ever wanted to meet,” said the husband. “We would be walking in a supermarket and she would say ‘You remember so and so?’ and of course I didn’t but she would know their children’s names, their grandchildren’s names, everything.”

Stephen Borace said his wife “never had a bad thing to say about anyone and I don’t think anyone had a bad thing to say about her.” He said when she first began working at the election board employees there weren’t well paid and she got them raises and “went to bat for them.”

Stephen Borace said his wife “never had a bad thing to say about anyone and I don’t think anyone had a bad thing to say about her.” He said when she first began working at the election board employees there weren’t well paid and she got them raises and “went to bat for them.”

The husband said his wife was suffering so much in the end that her death was a grace.

Donna DeSomma, Marie Borace’s secretary, said Borace “was a wonderful personal friend of mine besides being my boss. DeSomma said Borace "treasured the job and she treasured the people she worked with.”

Asked what was most important to his wife, Stephen Borace said “Her children and her grandchildren -- and me. She always took care of me.”

Local politicians like U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Rep. Albio Sires, D-West New York, and North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco also sung Borace's praises and mourned her death.